Two
Republicans have done an about face on the healthcare bill with the
addition of an amendment that is rather questionably helpful. There is a better chance than ever that
the healthcare plan will be approved and it could be voted on as early as
today. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/health-care-republicans-obamacare-237910
It is imperative that we keep on our representatives to oppose this
bill. So many people will not be
able to be insured, as costs will be prohibitive. People will die. We need to call our reps. We need to
keep telling our stories and to demand that no vote be taken without a CBO
score so we all understand the costs involved.

As we have all been
hearing, everyone is up in arms about the new healthcare bill's lack of
provisions for pre-existing conditions. Paul Ryan has proposed "high
risk pools" as an alternative to the ACA's rule that people with such
conditions cannot be denied health insurance. High-risk pools, or funds
set aside for subsidizing the healthcare costs of high-risk patients are,
some conservatives say, "a
fairer and more equitable solution to this social problem, rather than
hiding the cost by forcing other people to pay premiums that are
artificially higher than the value of the product."https://www.wsj.com/articles/pre-existing-confusion-1493680248?mod=e2two. However,
of the states that have implemented high-risk pools, "Many had
limited enrollment, very high premiums, steep deductibles, pre-existing
condition exclusions lasting six to 12 months, annual and lifetime benefit
limits and waiting lists." http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170213/NEWS/170219968.
That doesn't sound like a good alternative to us. Let's keep calling our
MoCs to vote NO on the health care bill, and we can add that we don't
think that high-risk pools are fair, or equitable.

Julie
Kirchner, the former executive director of an anti-immigration hate group
(according to the Southern Poverty Law Center:http://bit.ly/1KWdEcO), is now the ombudsman for U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Service. (USCIS). http://bit.ly/2p9nJPJ Let's call the
Department of Homeland Security, and the USCIS to let them know that this
is unacceptable. DOH: 202-282-8495
USCIS: 1-800-375-5283

Let's
not forget to keep calling ICE's VOICE hotline, to report our
(extraterrestrial) alien encounters! http://n.pr/2pySnVx
The LoveArmy has a Report Alien Encounters campaign, which connects us to
the VOICE hotline, and offers handy dandy graphics to share on social
media: http://bit.ly/2p9Fsq6

Mama’s Bail Out Day, a
project of the Movement for Black Lives, reports that it has raised more
than half of its hoped-for $300,000 in individual donations. If we
haven’t yet contributed to this effort to bail out mothers who languish in
jail for lack of money bail during Mother’s Day week, now’s the time to
give what we can! The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund is taking the
contributions:https://brooklynbailfund.org/national-bail-out-day-donate

Last
month, the California State Senate passed the nation’s first sanctuary
state legislation, which, if enacted, would block state and local law
enforcement agencies from using their resources to comply with Trump’s
nativist agenda. But Governor Jerry Brown has yet to sign this
legislation. #AllofUs urges us to sign a petition encouraging Brown
to live up to his reputation as a progressive and act to pass this law:https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-california-a-sanctuary-state

Learning

Literature
can be activist. For one thing, it can remind us that the political
situation we are facing is far from unique. Let this trenchant and
compelling short story by Egyptian authorBasma Abdel Aziz,
translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette, remind us of what we
don't want to become. "Scenes from the Life of an Autocrat"
could *almost* have been written about Trump.https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/march/scenes-life-autocrat-basma-abdel-aziz

The philosopher George Santayana once famously said, "Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Historian
Timothy Snyder has written a slim volume calledOn
Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.It
can be used to guide us in our effort to follow Santayana's advice. Not
only does Snyder go through important events that help us understand how
fascism, Nazism and communism took hold, he also tells us how we as
individuals cankeep the United States from becoming another
failed democratic country. The book, a quick
read, can be purchased athttps://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century/dp/0804190119/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493845765&sr=8-1&keywords=on+tyrannyIt
is available as a Kindle book, paperback, and audiobook.

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a
federation of more than 70 #resistancesites
located throughout the nation,

each
with its own methods and approach. Other member sites are listed here: https://www.actionalliance.co/ --scroll
down and click through and you'll find many more opportunities to make a
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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..